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Due to the unique page numbering scheme of this book, the electronic pagination of the eBook does not match the pagination of the printed version. To navigate the text, please use the electronic Table of Contents that appears alongside the eBook or the Search function.
About the pagination of this eBook Due to the unique page numbering scheme of this book, the electronic pagination of the eBook does not match the pagination of the printed version. To navigate the text, please use the electronic Table of Contents that appears alongside the eBook or the Search function. For citation purposes, use the page numbers that appear in the text. In this book, you will: learn about different kinds of words. discover how to make letters using your hands. answer fun questions. find lots of word activities at the back of the book. 9 9 C HICAGO L ONDON N EW D ELHI P ARIS S EOUL S YDNEY T AIPEI T OKYO W S R D O BRITANNICA LIBRARY D I S C O V E R Y 2 How do you talk to a friend? With words! I’m hungry! Everyone uses words. We use words to tell others what we think and how we feel. We use words to ask questions and to answer questions too. These grapes are good. Do you want some? I like cookies! His name is Bobo. Sit up, Bobo! What is your dog’s name? 3 5 4 If you didn’t have words, how would you ever read a book? And how could you talk about a trip you took? Without words, you couldn’t answer a question at school or shout to your friend at the swimming pool. With words you can talk about your brand new bike. You can ask for any ice cream flavor you like. You can tell your friends what you did today. Words are important in so many ways! 7 6 Think of when you were a very little baby. You didn’t know any words. You only made sounds. You cried when you were hungry or tired. You pointed at things you wanted, or you tried to reach for them. You made all kinds of silly sounds that did not make sense. All babies do this before they learn to talk. 8 9 But how did you learn to talk? Most babies learn to talk by hearing others speaking. First, they start to understand the words they hear. Then they try to make these sounds too. Finally, babies begin to say a few real words. As babies become toddlers, they learn many words very fast. They learn to put words together to ask for what they want. They understand what others are saying to them. What was the first word you ever said? 10 11 Some people are born deaf. This means they cannot hear or do not hear well. As they grow up, they learn to make words with their hands. This is called sign language. People who are deaf may not speak words. But they still talk! cookie Babies who are deaf cannot learn words by listening to people talk. 12 13 A Q R S T U V W X Y K L M N O P Z B C D E F G H alligator I insect bear cat dog elephant fox goat hippopotamus panda zebra opossum Nancy monkey lizard king jellyfish queen raccoon Susan turtle umbrella violets wolf xylophone yak J H e r e a r e t h e l e t t e r s o f t h e a l p h a b e t . We may speak or sign or write words. But all words are made from the letters of the alphabet . The alphabet begins with the letter A. It ends with the letter Z. Altogether, our alphabet has 26 letters. 14 15 We can make UPPERCASE letters or lowercase letters. Uppercase letters are bigger than lowercase letters. They are sometimes called capital letters. This is an uppercase A. This is a lowercase a. We can also make a sign for every letter by using our hand. This is the sign for the letter A. How many uppercase A’s can you find in this picture? How many lowercase a’s can you find in this picture? T h e r e a r e t h r e e w a y s o fm a k i n g e a c h l e t t e r i n t h e a l p h a b e t . [...]... the words here th Here is a girl holding a box My bed is very soft The blue cup is on the round table My sister is happy today James is the tallest in his class What words would you use to tell someone about her? The kittens are black and white They are so funny! 38 What words would you use to tell what the box is like? 39 Other words help us know WHERE THINGS ARE In, out, over, and under are words. .. nd gra 48 49 From letters we make words From words we make sentences We could not have sentences if we did not have words! With words, we can talk, sing, and tell jokes to make someone laugh oys T ale rS fo 50 We can make lists and write notes We can make a sign to tell people something we want them to know ade Par 00 10: at adee Parts her star 51 Best of all, with words, We can listen to stories too... is the opposite of tall too, like OPPOSITES Can you guess what the opposites of these words are? Sad Cold Stop Light is the opposite of dark Old is the opposite of new Old is also the opposite of young! 44 Empty 45 Sometimes, the endings of different We say these words RHYME words sound the same Can you find the words that rhyme here? Out in the field lives a little mouse He lives inside his own cozy... groups of words together to mean something too When we put words together like this, they make what we call a sentence Whe re fish are the in pictu this re? Whe the re is boa t? s ake letters together to m se different kinds of l the al wo rd Some sentences have a lot of words, like this: Seju’s grandfather caught a big bucket of silver and purple fish Other sentences have only two or three words, like... different words Putting letters together to make a word is like figuring out a puzzle What letters do we need to make a word? Here are some letters: SP T 26 O With just these four letters we can spell three different words! Look: TOPS POTS STOP 27 er oth W ords to talk to e fw eu ach o se m ds any different kin Names are one kind of word We also have words to talk about things that happen And there are words. .. thinks up a new word and the game goes on! Hidden Words Write each letter of your whole name (first, middle, last) on separate pieces of paper so you can move them around Now try rearranging these letters to make other words How many new words can you find? Write each one on another piece of paper For example, if your name were Peter Alan Smith, here are some words that can be made from your name: 3 a am... WO S S A R Y GL alphabet (AL feh bet) a set of letters used in a language to make words deaf (def ) unable to hear at all or to hear well sentence (sen tence) a group of words put together in proper order to make a statement or a question sign language (SYNE lang wij) a language that uses hand movements instead of spoken words toddlers (tod luhrs) young children who are just beginning to learn to walk... and outside are also words that tell us where things are 41 pages that tell where so m eth i ng is? ou ny a C dt fin ds on these wor he Sam went out in the rain He stood under an umbrella He waited on the street corner We walked over the bridge and saw the boats in the river below 42 A monkey was hiding behind the door How did he get inside the house? 43 There are other kinds of words We use opposites... people’s names do 33 ACTION words tell us what people and things are doing Dad cooks dinner for us A pot bubbles on the stove A red bird sings in the birdbath The cat creeps closer Jen rides her bike Ride is an action word It tells what Jen is doing 34 d fin you ction n Ca the a ere? ll ds h a r wo Carmen builds a house out of blocks Her brother reads a book 35 There are also many words for talking about...Let’s look for words that begin with each of the letters in the alphabet Maybe you can find the letters in the middle or at the end of the words too Look closely and see what you find! Cc The calico cat curls up on the carpet Aa An alligator ate an apple in an airplane Bb A big . talk to a friend? With words! I’m hungry! Everyone uses words. We use words to tell others what we think and how we feel. We use words to ask questions. the words they hear. Then they try to make these sounds too. Finally, babies begin to say a few real words. As babies become toddlers, they learn many words